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Technical Director at CERTICON: http://www.certicon.cz

Co-founder of Agile Consortium at Czech Republic: http://agilnikonsorcium.cz

Agile blog: http://soch.cz/blog

Zuzana Šochovázuzana@soch.cz, sochova@certicon.cz

• Introduction - LOI Case Study

• Specifics

• Practices

• Results

• Difficulties

Presentation Outline

for my MBA dissertationhttp://soch.cz/agilesurvey.html

- How to start Agile?

- What did we learned?

- How tight must be Agile with

the company culture?

Agile Adoption Survey 2009

Web solutions

LOI Case Study - Introduction

Standard products, low customization

LOI Case Study - Introduction

Long-term customers

Partnership & Collaboration

LOI Case Study - Introduction

Internet is more than web presentation

Brand marketing

Sales marketing

Introduce to the new customers

Persuade customers

Keep existing customers

Poor project & time management

Poor estimates

Late delivery

No customer relationship

High customization

Difficult design

LOI Case Study – Starting Point

Lot of Idea Company

Small company

3 people

Short-term projects

Hours

Strict delivery conditions

‘On time or free’

Lot of Idea Case - Specifics

Scrum method with half-day Sprint:

What We Did and Why

WHY?

• Average task 2h

• Web solution in 3days

• E-shop in 5days

Low overhead x

Fast reaction to the project status

Half day Sprint including–Pre-Planning & Planning

– Stand-up meeting

–Point estimations

– Tasks in backlog

–Reflection meeting

LOI – Beginning SCRUM

At the Beginning…

– Extremely fast

–No backup

–Dependent on the customer responses

– Strict business model

–High risk

Difficulties

… Couple Weeks Later

–Half-day Sprint

– Stand-up meetings every half-day

–Pre-planning and planning

– Early customer communication

–Communication within the team

– Team cooperation

Summary – What We Did…

In 2 months we‘ve been able to fix:

–Predictability

–On-time delivery

–Customer satisfaction

–Increase velocity by 30%

Conclusion

Zuzana Šochovázuzana@soch.cz

http://www.certicon.cz

http://soch.cz/blog

Please help me with Agile Adoption Survey:

http://soch.cz/agilesurvey.html

Thank you for your attention